please pull powerpc.git 'merge' branch

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Sun Apr 30 23:04:08 EST 2006


>> We already have SMT, ICACHE_SNOOP and ALTIVEC feature bits, so it  
>> probably
>> makes sense to stay in the ARCH_2_05 direction. Unfortunately it  
>> might
>> be tricky to rename the old defines now due to userland exposure.
>>
>> I guess Cell breaks all this logic though. Which PPC base version  
>> does
>> it implement?
>
> The Cell Broadband Engine Architecture in theory is 2.03 and also  
> mandates

The docs (for example, "CBE_Architecture_v10.pdf") say 2.02.  One  
more reason
to not use those arch version numbers.


Segher




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